B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3241

HR 3241 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 1,148 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,234 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 388× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,148 years ago.

1,148 lybrightness mag 6.11B2IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 69082 · HIP 40324

13,234 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
388× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,148 years
at light speed from Earth
2.29×
as hot as the Sun
388×
the Sun's light output
-1.62
absolute magnitude
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HR 3241B-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Puppis

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.